Kacapiring

Here death proves less terrible than people fear. A man who dies chasing a terrorist finds dying as wide as the horizon. A husband loses a wife who chooses to vanish into the unseen. An obituary writer whom everyone shuns as a bearer of bad news is suddenly sought out by hundreds of thousands. Fish rain from the sky, a giant fish from the Red Sea asks to be offered to the Prophet, and revered kiais pick money out of the air.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

148 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Banana

ISBN

9789791299022 (original)